#the bird ever

[ale-cart]

Davesprite because he's taken over my brain tonight

[victheclown]

Birb Rammy?

Birb Rammy.

And a silly sketch of them outside their Birb self ft. Capitan

[mockingjaylad]

Sorry chat I’m incredibly indecisive this will probably happen again… I might change it when I do a digital version

Let’s just call this revision no. 2 flightless wings

BUT NOW TO DO KON!!!!! (Also little ramble under)

Coat that looks like a sparrows tail and a bunch of triangles bc more pointy shapes I love pointy shapes + the triangle symbol will make his costume look more similar to Kons which is my goal.

Hood would just kinda round out his head silhouette and make it even more bird .

Unlike Bruce I want him to lean into his birdness, in this AU Batman’s cape is super long creature looking so he can completely conceal his wings or puff them up under the cape to make himself seem even larger. While doing that batman leap thing with his cape out behind him he flats his wings under the cape still.

I got rid of the claws but I might give him retractable ones on his gloves?

Idk why I did that with the shoes I thought it would be cool and balance out the light colour of his face better to have some skin at the bottom as well I miiight leave the shoe colour yellow instead of black depending on how it looks and I might make the gloves black again with yellow palms.

No clue what’s going on with the shins but we ball!!

I think this design is much more whimsical and silly which is my goal.

Very rough universal Red Robin suit design unless I say otherwise that I actually drew back with the Jason drawings and forgot existed ^_^

Some details might change whenever I draw it but we ball

He’s so creature with his clawwws

[untitledgoosegay]

as funny as it is to say, "there's no such thing as a fish" is not actually true

"science doesn't know what a fish is" is really not true

"fish" is not a monophyletic category. there is no common ancestor of everything that we call a "fish," and none of the things that we don't

"fish" is a paraphyletic category -- and a useful one! marine biologists use it! "fish" describes a general body plan and lifestyle. it is useful to be able to talk about coelacanths and tuna in a shared category, though coelacanths are more closely related to us than to tuna.

where this bugs me is the repetition of the idea that "scientists" are hidebound and uncreative, unable to comprehend anything that doesn't conform to a specific idea of categorization -- when this is fundamentally untrue! we know perfectly well what a "fish" is. the fact that it's a paraphyletic group is only confounding to pop science, as a funny factoid, not to anyone who actually understands what a paraphyletic group is.

[bigolialragu]

i like thinking that laios would go crazy on birdwatching after the [SPOILERS] curse

[inkskinned]

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

[pimsri]

In Defiance of Death

[montereybayaquarium]

✨ Makana travels the Aquarium ✨

From watching the drifting jellies to being all about that (sea)bass, Makana’s journey around the Aquarium is an enriching experience! Makana is one of our resident Laysan albatrosses. She’s offered excursions like this one as part of her care. These outings provide her with new smells, sounds, and sights to "sea" as she cruises through the building. 

🌍Makana broke her left wing as a young chick and lost the ability to fly long distances, which is why she resides with us. These enrichment activities keep her mind sharp and offer her new experiences.

But did you know that seabirds in the wild face some serious challenges? 🥺 As an ambassador for her species, Makana helps us highlight the dangers of plastic pollution threatening the health of our oceans. It’s up to us to help! 🌊

Let’s make sure Makana’s seabird friends don’t have to wing it alone. Learn more about our conservation work.

[ghosted-jazz]

I like to think breaking the canary curse via dying in the void had some effects on Lizzie

[frownyalfred]

Bruce being such a weird, caring dad that on patrol in a near-death scenario he won't say "go ahead, do it, I don't even care about him [Robin]" even as a bluff to try and get the bad guy to point the gun somewhere else. even if it would work and shift their attention back to him, he won't bluff about caring about Dick, or Jason, or any of them.

[omatoxin]

[applestruda]

*redesigns my grian the night before the new hc season*

[tiredbitchposts]

Ok, but Shen Jiu being Shen Yuan's father is so funny in a very tragic way. Shen Jiu is a ball of traumas and all types of issues and i truly believe there's not a single one that man doesn't have, so, you give him a baby!Shen Yuan, a little ball of life that depends on him for survival, cannot walk away from him and is culturally wired to pretty much love him and if not, to at the least respect him above all else, you cannot tell me that this man would be normal about him. Also, imagine Shen Jiu, who'd be the type of parent to project traumas the way only a mother could, having a child that looks like him but with a "sweeter" personality (which, by the way, is bullshit, they just have never seen that boy rip into a book he disliked but wouldn't stop reading) that has the effect on men Shen Yuan has, he'd lock that boy up in a tower to "cultivate" and consequently create a rumor about the Qing Jing's beauty who was so bewitching their peak lord father locked them in a tower because that's just his luck. Loving Shen Yuan wouldn't fix him, but it'd create a whole new set of issues that'd cancel out the other ones

[umblrspectrum]

i got lazy in the second panel

[jagalart]

Peacock Prince

[emberglowfox]

he did get those braids after all